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The French Revolution of 1789, as Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions — John Shaqi

The French Revolution of 1789, as Viewed in the Light of Republican InstitutionsAbbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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The French Revolution of 1789, as Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions

Name: The French Revolution of 1789, as Viewed in the Light of Republican Institutions
Author: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799

CONTENTS.


  CHAPTER I.

  ORIGIN OF THE FRENCH MONARCHY.

  Extent of France.--Character of its early Inhabitants.--Conquest of
  Gaul.--Barbarian Invasion.--The  Franks.--Pharamond.--Clovis.
  --Introduction of Christianity.--Clotilda.--Merovingian
  Dynasty.--Fields of March.--Anecdote of Clovis.--The Parisii.--Strife
  with the Nobles.--Moorish  Invasion.--Charles Martel.--Pepin.--Fields
  of May.--Charlemagne.--His Policy.--Feudal  System.--The Church.--Rolls.
  --Louis V.--Hugh Capet.--Parliament established  by Philip the Fair
                                                                    Page 17

  CHAPTER II.

  THE HOUSES OF VALOIS AND BOURBON.

  The House of Valois.--Luxury of the Court and the Nobles.--Insurrection.
  --Jaques Bonhomme.--Henry III.--Henry IV., of Navarre.--Cardinal
  Richelieu.--French Academy.--Regency of Anne of Austria.--Palaces of
  France.--The Noble and the Ennobled.--Persecution of the Protestants.
  --Edict of Nantes.--Its Revocation.--Distress of the Protestants.--Death
  of Louis XIV.                                                          25


  CHAPTER III.

  THE REGENCY AND LOUIS XV.

  State of France.--The Regency.--Financial Embarrassment.--Crimes of
  the Rulers.--Recoining the Currency.--Renewed Persecution of the
  Protestants.--Bishop Dubois.--Philosophy of Voltaire.--Anecdote of
  Franklin.--The King's Favorites.--Mademoiselle Poisson.--Her Ascendency.
  --_Parc aux Cerfs._--Illustrative Anecdote.--Letter to the King.
  --Testimony of Chesterfield.--Anecdote of La Fayette.--Death of
  Pompadour.--Mademoiselle Lange.--Power of Du Barry.--Death of
  Louis XV.                                                               34


  CHAPTER IV.

  DESPOTISM AND ITS FRUITS.

  Assumptions of the Aristocracy.--Molière.--Decay of the Nobility.
  --Decline of the Feudal System.--Difference between France and the
  United States.--Mortification of Men of Letters.--Voltaire,
  Montesquieu, Rousseau.--Corruption of the Church.--Diderot.
  --The Encyclopedists.--Testimony of De Tocqueville.--Frederic II. of
  Prussia.--Two Classes of Opponents of Christianity.--Enormity of
  Taxation.--Misery of the People.--"Good old Times of the Monarchy!"    45


  CHAPTER V.

  THE BASTILLE.

  Absolute Power of the King.--_Lettres de Cachet._--The Bastille.
  --Cardinal Balue.--Harancourt.--Charles of Armanac.--Constant de
  Renville.--Duke of Nemours.--Dungeons of the Bastille.--_Oubliettes._
  --Dessault.--M. Massat.--M. Catalan.--Latude.--The Student.--Apostrophe
  of Michelet                                                            53


  CHAPTER VI.

  THE COURT AND THE PARLIAMENT.

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